From the course: Illustrator: Coloring Artwork
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Find and fix RGB blacks for offset printing - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator: Coloring Artwork
Find and fix RGB blacks for offset printing
- When preparing Illustrator files for offset printing it's a good idea to double-check the black colors in the file, especially if your document was created from an assortment of assets. Maybe you have a page layout with logos and icons collected from a variety of resources. If so, it's likely that some of the black colors have been converted from an RGB source. A black color created in an RGB color space does not convert to 100% black in a CMYK color space. Instead, it converts to a mix of all four colors usually with non-whole numbers. Adding to this challenge, the converted CMYK black mix changes depending on color settings. In other words, a black created in an RGB document with the sRGB working space will convert differently than a black created in the Adobe 1998 working space. We have this fun illustration here created by Von Glitschka. I've set it up with a variety of black colors to demonstrate this. If I select this black text and we look at the color panel, we can see the…
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